Sentences with phrase «in early computing»

Conceiving Ada is a film on Ada Lovelace, an important figure in early computing and daughter of Lord Byron.

In an earlier computing era — not really so long ago — a beautiful hardware device with smartly tailored software to run it was a market - shaking innovation, and no one did that better than Apple: Its combined expertise in hardware design and human interface design were unmatched.

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Director of ethical hacking, team building genius, data visualization expert, cognitive computing architect, organizational catalyst, digital prophet, chief happiness manager: who would even have been able to come up with such job titles in the early 2000s?

While in town earlier this month to deliver a keynote at the Toronto stop on the Salesforce World Tour, Harris spoke with Canadian Business about cloud computing, innovation and what he's learned about leadership since starting the company in 1999.

Nvidia currently owns 70 % of the market for GPUs thanks to Huang, a visionary who foresaw a blossoming market for a new kind of computing early enough to reposition his company years in advance.

In early 2006, just as the concept of cloud computing was gaining traction in tech circles, Amazon's cloud offering went livIn early 2006, just as the concept of cloud computing was gaining traction in tech circles, Amazon's cloud offering went livin tech circles, Amazon's cloud offering went live.

The company bought Terremark in early 2011 for its data center capacity and wherewithal and then CloudSwitch nine months later for cloud computing bona fides.

That's exactly what Mobil Travel Guide of Park Ridge, Ill., is doing in one early utility - computing experiment.

The audience was mostly composed of early - stage VCs and other potential investors, and Lazaridis's primary message to them was that even though quantum computing is in its infancy, they need to jump on the opportunity now.

«We still remain in the early stages of the shift of compute to the cloud and the transition of traditional retail online and, in our opinion, the market is underestimating the long - term financial benefit of both to Amazon.»

In early 2013, Zvi Galil, dean of the college of computing at Georgia Tech, met with Stephenson to talk about launching an online master's degree at the college.

And he is, according to many people in the industry, a visionary who foresaw a blossoming market for a new kind of computing early enough to reposition his company years in advance.

In October 2014, Rometty told investors it would not achieve its years - long promise to hit $ 20 earnings per share by 2015, and early this year revealed her roadmap: a plan to spend $ 4 billion to grow $ 40 billion in revenue in strategic areas like cloud computing, mobile, and big data, by 201In October 2014, Rometty told investors it would not achieve its years - long promise to hit $ 20 earnings per share by 2015, and early this year revealed her roadmap: a plan to spend $ 4 billion to grow $ 40 billion in revenue in strategic areas like cloud computing, mobile, and big data, by 201in revenue in strategic areas like cloud computing, mobile, and big data, by 201in strategic areas like cloud computing, mobile, and big data, by 2018.

GE was also one of a handful of companies involved in computing in the early 60s, continuing their evolution as a business.

His motive was to ensure that his children were positioned to take advantage of the next upheaval or revolution in technology, and my early childhood and teens were a grounding in the basics of computing and coding, with a lot of syntax errors and swear words thrown in.

Earlier this month, the Chinese technology giant announced a partnership with Ford Motor in which the two companies said they would leverage artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and e-commerce via Tmall to «redefine the consumer journey and user experience for automobiles.»

Privately held computing giant Dell has filed paperwork with U.S. regulators to take its SecureWorks division public in an IPO early next year.

EMC and VMware's cloud computing units will be reorganized into a new unit that combines both with Virtustream, a cloud software and services provider acquired by EMC in a $ 1.2 billion deal earlier this year.

American venture capital firm focused on early stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, silicon technology, biotechnology, healthcare and clean technology sectors

In an increasingly competitive market in security of the supply chain, nanochip (r) IBM will have the same computing power as its much longer equivalent since the early ninetieIn an increasingly competitive market in security of the supply chain, nanochip (r) IBM will have the same computing power as its much longer equivalent since the early ninetiein security of the supply chain, nanochip (r) IBM will have the same computing power as its much longer equivalent since the early nineties.

It is vital to ensure that children are encouraged to learn computing skills, including programming and the application of computers in the modern world at an early age.

His blueprint for a universal computing machine, published two years earlier, set the specs for every computer that followed, from the humblest pocket calculator to the mightiest supercomputer — via laptop, smartphone and all points in between.

Thus, the «demon» hypothesized by Pierre - Simon Laplace in the early 1800s (give the demon the exact positions and velocities of every particle in the universe, and it will compute the future state of the universe) is stymied if the demon must be a part of the universe.

By discouraging access to public space, street harassment silences women's voices and quashes their participation in public life, the team behind the app told a computing conference in Canada earlier this month.

The five types of cancers analyzed in this study have screening methods that allow for detection at an early stage, though in some instances, debate remains over efficacy and appropriate use: mammography for breast cancer, colonoscopy for colorectal cancer, Pap smear and / or HPV test for cervical cancer, spiral computed tomography or CT for lung cancer, and PSA test for prostate cancer.

Now we are getting one or two a month,» says Bernard Rous, director of publications at the Association for Computing Machinery in New York, the world's biggest learned society for scientific computing, which is in the early stages of implementing CrossCheck.

There is, to pick the most glaring example, no discussion of the homebrew computing scene, which appeared in the early 1970s and led to the development of the personal computer.

First conceptualized in the early 1960s, GPS is a space - based navigation system that allows a receiver to compute its location and velocity by measuring the time it takes to receive radio signals from four or more overhead satellites.

The team used several hundred thousand compute hours at NERSC to produce a series of 2D and 3D simulations that helped them examine the role of dark matter halo photoevaporation — where energetic radiation ionizes gas and causes it to disperse away from the halo — played not just in the early formation of stars but also the assembly of later galaxies.

He looks at the way computing has grown from its early theoretical basis in mathematics to now encompass many things...

The idea of the quantum computer emerged in the early 1980s, when scientists were pondering the fundamental limits of computing.

While our previous manuscript (Gilja et al., 2015) showed improved continuous control performance over earlier approaches, as the reviewer points out, the current study adds a parallel decoding method to enable discrete selection (the HMM), which is a critical step in developing point - and - click interfaces that would be suitable to control a general purpose computing device.

They revised an earlier HIPPARCOS parallax estimate of l02 ly made in the 1990s that had an error margin (Plx = 31.92 + / - 0.51 mas) just big enough to suggest that the star may actually lie about 100 ly away, in agreement with Earth - based parallax measurements computed before 1978 as reported by Robert Burnham, Jr. (1931 - 93).

Among Dr. Grinberg's contributions to the dementia field are the identification of brainstem nuclei as the earliest structures affected in AD and the translation of these findings to diagnosis and treatment development; use of high - resolution histology and sophisticated computing tools for validating multimodal neuroimaging findings; and participation in several international neuropathological consortia for establishing neuropathological criteria for neurodegenerative diseases and vascular dementia.

«Both total metabolic tumor volume (TMTV), computed on baseline PET, and end - of - induction PET (EOI PET) are imaging biomarkers showing promise for early risk stratification in patients with high tumor - burden follicular lymphoma,» reported lead author Anne Ségolène Cottereau, MD, from Cochin Hospital, René Descartes University, Paris, France, and colleagues.

But this film, despite the excellent lead performance of Michael Fassbender (with a decent American accent — I'm American), moves too slickly between the technical, and often incomprehensible, history of Apple early computing and Jobs» seemingly autistic behaviour in terms of his personal relationships.

It has also been known for ICT procurement to be based on one of the following: educators wishing to keep up with certain trends in the general public's use of computing and communication devices; to actually be ahead of those trends and maintain a reputation for being at the leading edge, with all the attendant issues of being an early adopter; or even on the back of people seeing a new gadget being tested on a television programme.

It is too early to say how intelligent voice assistants or Machine Learning - enabled chatbots will be programmed, given that Artificial Intelligence itself is taking its baby steps in the world of computing.

As a subject, computing has great potential, it's an opportunity to provide children with an understanding of the world around them, and give them the confidence to think about changing it, in their earliest years.

Themes and areas of focus include: unlocking enthusiasm and impact: the secrets to implementing ed - tech for acceptance and expertise, a wealth of online safety, different approaches to your computing curriculum, IT in special schools settings, Technology in Early Years, blogging, mastery in computing, engaging parents, creative coding, progression, collaborative learning in leadership and much more..

President Obama earlier this year announced a new initiative, «Computer Science for All,» to empower a generation of American students with the computing skills they need to thrive in a digital economy.

BCS, the chartered institute for IT, which runs the qualification, announced that the omission was because new national curriculum requirements for computing mean many Year 11 pupils would have developed the skills covered by the qualification in earlier school years by 2019.

As using mobile phones and other mobile computing devices in lessons has become more «socially acceptable» over the last year, the early adopters who have the mandate to experiment with social media and blogging have found them another good tool to support learning.

Prior to getting her doctoral degree, she worked as an instructional designer and an interactive media developer, as well as created, spearheaded and taught early maker and design education efforts (then termed «physical computing») in the New York City public schools with underserved students and teachers.

It continuously computes a differentiated image of the surroundings; as a result, the assistance systems respond even more precisely and earlier than in the predecessor model.

While demand for these is still in the early states, these are expected to be the future of personal computing.

Dell has been in the tablet scheme of things from a very early stage, though it never could emulate the success that it has met with other traditional forms of computing.

Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiaverini Ada Byron King, the real - life daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, was a mathematician and computing pioneer, and her story is told in this immersive novel set in the elite world of early 19th - century England.

The very smallest PCs might be termed the «stick class,» vanguarded by the Atom - CPU - powered Intel Compute Stick we first reviewed in early 2015 (and again in its refreshed, Cherry Trail Atom and Core m3 forms in 2016), followed by similar sticks from Lenovo and Asus.

While it is too early to tell how much traction tablets will gain among potential buyers, analysts say the state of technology is such that there might finally be the right mix of applications, hardware and mobility available to make tablet PCs more than just a niche device in an already - crowded market, with gadgets designed to deal with almost any computing a person may need.